(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 15 – A class from Chieri, a municipality of 35 thousand inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, went to the Savoy capital for a trip, having finished the educational trip to ‘Xké?’, the “curiosity laboratory” which is only two blocks from the university city, it was repaired by the three teachers who accompanied it, due to the rain that began to fall at lunchtime, in the Turin university, which however has been occupied for a few days by pro-Palestine activists . In a short film circulating online, children are seen shouting ‘Free Palestine’; they scream, clap their hands, raise their arms to the sky; one waves the Palestinian flag, much taller than him.
The Ministry of Education and Merit announces in these hours that it has prepared an inspection to ascertain the facts and ascertain any responsibilities of the teachers of the school institution. The teachers and the principal of the institute made it clear that there was no plan to stop in the university where the children were made to stop only because the rain was heavy and it was almost time for lunch. In fact, in the videos some little ones are sitting on the floor and eating a sandwich. “It wasn’t us who taught the children the songs for Palestine. It was the occupiers who sang them, our students just repeated them”, said one of the teachers. A mobilization with ‘pro Gaza’ tents has been underway in the university since last Monday. The principal also defended the teachers, repeating their version. “The teachers only wanted to protect the children from the rain and entered the occupied Palazzo Nuovo with the class”, said Dario Portale, director of the Chieri comprehensive school. But the Italy-Israel Federation and the Piedmont Zionist Group defined the episode as “disconcerting”, “among other things unjustifiable on an educational level”, and turned to the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara. That today he has arranged an inspection. (HANDLE). .
